tenacia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tenācia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teˈna.t͡ʃa/
  • Rhymes: -atʃa
  • Hyphenation: te‧nà‧cia

Noun

tenacia f (plural tenacie)

  1. tenacity

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From tenāx + -ia.

Noun

tenācia f (genitive tenāciae); first declension

  1. stubbornness, obstinacy, tenacy
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative tenācia
Genitive tenāciōrum
Dative tenāciīs
Accusative tenācia
Ablative tenāciīs
Vocative tenācia
Descendants
  • English: tenacy
  • Italian: tenacia

Adjective

tenācia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of tenāx

References

  • tenacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • tenacia in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • tenacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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